#also izuku's rogue arc also mirrors iida's arc less in terms of goals like All Might but more in the surrendering yourself for a goal way

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It's Iida's turn to get the half masked imagery. Though for Iida it's done as an optical illusion since it's hard to half rip off a helmet in the same way as a cloth mask.

Anyway, this is Iida surrendering everything about himself in order to complete his perceived duty of avenging his brother. Because if he had succeeded in killing Stain (unless it was covered up like the All Might and All for One situation), the name Ingenium and Iida's hero dreams would have died here.

Speaking of All Might, this is Iida's most unheroic era but it's also his most All Might kinnie era. Because, yeah, of course there are high-minded rationalizations for why All for One and Stain should be hunted down, but the real reason All Might and Iida wanted them dead was because of the harm they did to a loved one.